Fear

Exodus 1:21 says, “And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.”  All I keep reading about are people fearing god, god bullying people, and god killing people.  Where is the love?  Isaac almost kills his son out of fear.  Or is that love to god?

Angel of the lord again?

Exodus 3:2 says, "the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed." Who is this angel of the lord fellow? Why couldn't the lord just have appeared as he did to Lot and many others? Why as a flame?

Is god paying attention?

Read these verses and think about what you are reading.  Exodus 2:23 says, “And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

2:24 And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.

2:25 And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.”  Doesn’t it sound like god isn’t paying attention?  Their cry came up to god by reason of the bondage?  They had been toiling for the entire rule of the last pharaoh and god didn’t hear them suffer and cry?  He has to hear this to jar his memory of the covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?  I thought god knew everything?  He respects them for being slaves?  Shouldn’t a god protect his creations from becoming slaves?

And this is one of god’s favorites?

Exodus 2:12 says, “And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.”  He kills a guard?  In Genesis god cursed Able for killing Cain?  Isn’t the Egyptian a creation of gods?  Doesn’t he love the Egyptians as mush as the Israelites?  Shouldn’t Moses be cursed to be a vagabond?   

God rewards more Lies

Exodus 1:20 says, “Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.”  So the midwives lied and god liked it?  I understand that they saved the firstborn male children but they did not stand before Pharaoh and tell the truth and Pharaoh knew that the Hebrew males were being born and living so they weren’t really protecting them from him having knowledge of the events?  Why lie and why wouldn’t god be mad at their lie?

Hebrew women lied

Exodus 1:15 says, “And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

1:16 And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

1:17 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive.

1:18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?

1:19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.”  The Hebrew women lied to Pharaoh.  I understand they feared going against his wishes but why have a god at all if he can’t protect you from evil.



How many Israelites?

Exodus 1:9 says, “And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we:

1:10 Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.”  Egypt was a series of cities and towns built along the Nile River.  How could they possibly outnumber the Egyptians. Exodus 1:5 says, “And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.”  To go from 70 to possibly hundreds of thousands would be a little much n my eyes.